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Barack Obama has been seen as the saviour of modern democracy and equality. Most minorities in the US found him to be the first black president of the US. While his race ticket claiming to be a black man can be contested due to his European parentage, most of his policies and whatever he promised have been not implemented yet. That is rather common [...]

The democratic system works in that a ‘black’ man is now U.S. president, but the real proof for the system to show that it is, indeed, working depends on what the ‘black’ president can and will do in terms of correcting the racial, gender, and class inequalities in American society. The election of a ‘center-left’ African-American president [...]